Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free enterprise system is objectionable merely because it is predominant in America, then the same must be said of baseball games and corn husking bees...
...hoping that a shorter supply would raise prices. Nevertheless, except for hogs, prices stayed down. The Department of Agriculture, which mortally hates and fears a fall in farm income, predicted that the lower prices would not last. Many another expert thought differently. Mark W. Pickell, executive secretary of the Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association, said that prices would be "lower in November and December," even lower next year. Whoever was right, consumers thought the effect was healthy...
...worth mentioning, advises people not to buy a paper that day. From politics, war, or a headlined disaster he may slip into a spiel on Southern cooking: "Where you go'n' to find better cookin' than in your own Virginia? Provided, of course, you use enough corn bread, and enough bacon in cookin' your vegetables." Even some Richmonders who profess to be fed up with his sagelike utterances and sweet-talkin' voice admit that they listen anyhow...
Mississippi and Arkansas had the biggest cotton crop in a decade. Countless tons of grapes were on their way to wineries in California. The far West's army of "fruit tramps" picked apples in Washington's Wenatchee and Yakima Valleys. In Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, the greatest corn crop in history awaited picking. Tractor-drawn drills were seeding wheat in the fields of Kansas and Nebraska. Sweating cowhands and their sweating mounts were cutting herds in the Southwest...
...play does not lack insight, but its real allegiance is to the footlights, with their richer-than-life diet of emotions. As Holt, indeed, Actor Morley sinks his teeth into the role as though it were an ear of corn dripping with butter-which, theatrically, it is. As Holt's wife, Actress Ash-croft-turning from a happy young mother into a blotchy old drunk-has a fat acting part too; but for brief seconds here & there, she is so good that she gives it the pinched look of tragedy...